Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 9, 1987, Docket No. 86-R1D2-621 (Carmel, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Kevin W. Horan. For DOSH: Thomas Meamber, Associate CSE.
An alleged general violation of 4228 (metal embossing machines) was vacated. Employer, a coin-stamping firm, had an employee stationed at the point of operation of a metal-embossing machine. It was cited for not guarding the point of operation. The safety order permits alternate means of point-of-operation protection: guards, or automatic feeds that do not require an operator's hands to come within the point of operation. Employer's machine
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